Quotes About Triumph

With proper and prudent recognition of their limited war potential, the British hoped to avoid a frontal attack on the Continent. They preferred a roundabout way to victory, having convinced themselves that German power could be worn down by attrition to the point of collapse, whereupon "the Anglo-American forces in the United Kingdom could perform a triumphal march from the Channel to Berlin with no more than a few snipers' bullets to annoy them.

I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.

You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?

You are filthy with your victory.

Glory can be safely despised by those only who have fairly won it.

Hope will carry you to a land flowing with great opportunities, and faith will establish you there.

The Cultured Handmaiden The Black Candle The Gillyvors My Beloved Son The Rag Nymph The House of Women The Maltese Angel The Golden Straw The Year of the Virgins The Tinker's Girl Justice is a Woman A Ruthless Need The Bonny Dawn The Branded Man The Lady on my Left The Obsession The Upstart The Blind Years

While he did have faith and passion he had many challenges to overcome. It was not an easy ride to success, but his through his faith and a passion he did make it

there's something about standing on the top of a mountain you personally climbed at great sacrifice.

Human nature. After something works out, we forget the frustration of the steps we took in getting there.

Horatio Lyle hit the floor, the floor hit him, and the floor came out the winner. It was in times like these, he told himself, when Newton's Second Law really made its point.

Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks

what Dayan said sitting crosslegged in Al-Aqsa was a victory over history: The war didn't need to be the triumph of one religion over another.

Difficulties existed only to be surmounted, and there was no setback that a little thought and determination could not overcome.

arriver en terrain conquis (arriving on conquered ground),

Against a heart inflamed with love, burning with unquenchable fire, a ruthless tyrant, cruelly armed, wages war, but all in vain. From every attack a victor, Love will always triumph. - Rosina

I did not know death then, that he is no more to be feared than the man on the black horse. He can be kind, time teaches us. He will lend a hand. Grace is his comrade, memory his foe. In the end he prevails, but triumphs not, so long as we remember.

As the motion picture finished—the first ever to be screened at the White House—President Wilson declared it a triumph. D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation was "like writing history with lightning," the president gushed. "And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

Colonnese praised the film for depicting "the terrible effects of hate and prejudice, and seems to say that life can only go on if one triumphs over these emotions.

Challenges do more good than harm in the journey to success. That is why it' s called success.

Change your fear of challenges to love for triumph over them. So that when you encounter them you will smile, not frown.

Good and few opportunities are obvious, better and more opportunities accompany challenges while the best and most opportunities come in the form of challenges.

We come here to overcome and it would have been unbecoming had it not been so.